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Is anyone planning a primary run against Rep. Brian Baird?

By Votus
Tue Nov 13, 2007 at 10:24:03 AM PST
Section: Diary Topic: Democrats

Baird is called a "Bush Dog" democrat on this site. Move-on sent out invitations to call and write to Baird this summer concerning his change of heart--he went from anti-war to now wanting to extend the illegal occupation of Iraq. He has had a couple of very heated town hall meetings down in southwest Washington with his constituents. On top of that, I just got notice from MegaVote that Baird just voted in favor of the Peru Free Trade Agreement.

My question is: is anyone planning to run as a Democrat in a primary race against Baird? A good primary candidate might be able to win because of the constituent dismay over some of his positions, and then we'd end up with a more Progressive Dem. in the House. It might be a bad idea, because it could split the Democrat vote and then a Republican could win it. It might depend on who the primary challenger was.

Would love your comments on whether you think this is feasable or not.

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Is anyone planning a primary run against Rep. Brian Baird? | 4 comments (4 topical)

Keeping my promise to Brian Baird

He held a Town Hall meeting in Raymond, WA, and my husband and I attended, specifically to have a direct discussion and conversation with him on his change in position on the surge in Iraq. We are a military family with 2 returning Iraq veterans, one will leave at the end of this week for his second deployment to Iraq.

If you haven't read my husband, Arthur's story at Washblog on our exchange with Brian Baird at the Town Hall in Raymond, WA, you can read it here. In that exchange in which Arthur asked Brian directly and man to man if Brian thought our son's life was worth it, Brian responded that we would not like his answer, but yes, he did think our son's life is worth it.

In the exchange, I made a promise to Brian Baird that I would be sharing my son's (actually, it is my son-in-law)deployment with him, writing to his office with weekly updates about my sil's Iraq deployment. Brian indicated he would read the updates. I am reluctant to have to keep this promise that I made to Brian Baird, yet I will. Our sil is at home with his wife and three children, and they are trying to capture every moment of family time before he leaves for Iraq at the end of this week.

On the Surge in Iraq "--we have set the bar so low it's buried in the sand at this point." - Barack Obama

by Lietta Ruger on Tue Nov 13, 2007 at 02:29:24 PM PST

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Exploring

Cheryl Crist, who ran against Baird in the primary 1 (or was it 3?) year ago is exploring the possibility of a primary run against Baird in '08. He and other incumbents need to know that they are not hearing their constituents, and if it takes Democratic challengers to do that then that's what needs to happen.

by Arresthpres on Tue Nov 13, 2007 at 06:34:36 PM PST

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There are peopleworking on this

There has been a lot of discussions and meetings Vancouver re a Baird primary challenger. With the vote yesterday against the Iraq bill, there can be no question any longer that Brian Baird is holding up a one-finger peace sign towards his constituents on the Iraq Occupation issue.

I think his vote also virtually assures that he will be challenged in the primary.

There are groups both on the local level in Vancouver and the national level looking to find and support a strong, progressive challenger.

by bushtool on Thu Nov 15, 2007 at 06:12:25 AM PST

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I'll send 10 bucks to ... a german shepard? by rmdSeaBos, 11/15/2007 08:14:15 PM PST (none / 0)

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